Definition: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) [Web and XML Glossary]

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

MIME provide facilities to allow multiple objects in a single Internet Email message, to represent body text in character sets other than ASCII, to represent formatted multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as images and audio fragments, and generally to facilitate later extensions defining new types of Internet Email for use by cooperating email agents.

Type Associations

Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
- Data Format

Associations

MIME is used as a base by
- HTML · HTTP · MHTML · MOSS · MTOM · S/MIME · SwA · XMSG · XMTP · XOP
MIME has been standardized by
- IETF

Mentioned in...

MOSS · XMSG

Bibliographic References

Ned Freed, John C. Klensin: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures [1]
Ned Freed, John C. Klensin: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures [1]
Ned Freed, Nathaniel S. Borenstein: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) — Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies [1]
Ned Freed, Nathaniel S. Borenstein: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) — Part Two: Media Types [1]
Keith Moore: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) — Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text [1]
Ned Freed, John C. Klensin, Jon B. Postel: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) — Part Four: Registration Procedures [1]
Ned Freed, Nathaniel S. Borenstein: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) — Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples [1]
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Ned Freed: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) — Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies [1]
Larry Masinter: MIME and the Web [0.9]
Dave Crocker: Internet Mail Architecture [0.9]
Graham Klyne, Mark Nottingham, Jeffrey C. Mogul: Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields [0.9]
Gregory M. Vaudreuil, Glenn W. Parsons: Content Duration MIME Header Definition [0.9]
Tony Hansen, Gregory M. Vaudreuil: Message Disposition Notification [0.9]
Eric Burger: Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter [0.9]
Gregory M. Vaudreuil: SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages [0.9]
Glenn W. Parsons, Gregory M. Vaudreuil: Content Duration MIME Header Definition [0.9]
Roger Fajman: An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications [0.9]
Gregory M. Vaudreuil: SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages [0.9]
Shane McCarron: XHTML Media Types — Second Edition [0.8]
Ivo Emanuel Goncalves, Silvia Pfeiffer, Christopher Montgomery: Ogg Media Types [0.8]
Erik Wilde, Martin J. Dürst: URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type [0.8]
Erik Wilde, Martin J. Dürst: URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type [0.8]
Erik Wilde: Registration Request for SMS URI Scheme [0.8]
Anish Karmarkar, Ümit Yalçınalp: Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML [0.8]
Graham Klyne, Jacob Palme: Registration of Mail and MIME Header Fields [0.8]
Bernard Aboba, Larry J. Blunk, John R. Vollbrecht, James Carlson, Henrik Levkowetz: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) [0.8]
Ben Kovitz: MIME Media Type for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) [0.8]
Edward A. Taft, James D. Pravetz, Stephen Zilles, Larry Masinter: The application/pdf Media Type [0.8]
David Singer, Richard Clark, Daniel T. Lee: MIME Type Registrations for JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444) [0.8]
Linus Walleij: The application/ogg Media Type [0.8]
Masayasu Ishikawa: XHTML Media Types [0.8]
Mark A. Baker, Peter Stark: The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media Type [0.8]
Makoto Murata, Simon St. Laurent, Dan Kohn: XML Media Types [0.8]
Paul E. Hoffman: Registration of Charset and Language Media Features Tags [0.8]
Martin Nilsson: The audio/mpeg Media Type [0.8]
Dan Connolly, Larry Masinter: The 'text/html' Media Type [0.8]
Tim Howes, Mark Smith, Frank Dawson: A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information [0.8]
E. James Whitehead, Makoto Murata: XML Media Types [0.8]
Glenn W. Parsons, James Rafferty, Stephen Zilles: Tag Image File Format (TIFF) — image/tiff, MIME Sub-type Registration [0.8]
Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos, Chris Lilley: The text/css Media Type [0.8]
Ned Freed, Keith Moore: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations [0.8]
Rens Troost, Steve Dorner, Keith Moore: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field [0.8]
Edward Levinson: SGML Media Types [0.8]
Yakov Shafranovich: Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files [0.7]
Paul E. Jones: Registration of the text/red MIME Sub-Type [0.7]
John J. Barton, Satish Thatte, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen: SOAP Messages with Attachments [0.7]
Lawrence E. Hughes: Internet E-Mail: Protocols, Standards, and Implementation [0.7]
Jacob Palme, Alex Hopmann: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML) [0.7]

Additional Information

Topic Creation: 2000-06-08; HTML Creation: 2012-01-22, 07:00:09
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